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Wait, it's wrong. The dv of kerbal rockets is much smaller of the real ones so basically you estimate cost of a rocket that in our solar system would just go suborbital, but in ksp system would evel fly to ex. jool.
You forgot to account for the fact that the Kerbol system is vastly smaller than the Sol system. A rocket capable of reaching the Mün would be far less powerful and far less expensive than a rocket capable of reaching the Moon
Well, I did not forget as there are 2 ways to go about it: compare deltaV capability, or game equivalent destination capability. I chose to do the second in the video.
Could you try the rocket method in a realistic size system? Based on simplistic assumptions, it would require a rocket with 3x more deltaV , so about 9-10x the cost... bringing it to a 1 fund to 4000$~... which is closer in line with the engine price method... Pretty please?
what would your most approximate estimation be tho? If you combine the exchange rates and look at the prices of some of them, which strikes an even middelground?
I imagine one fund is only $4.40 as mentioned before since kerbals dont care about stupid stuff like safety and possibly mass produce rocket parts they can make rockets quite cheaply.
This reminds me of a comment on the ec video because I think using solar panels was pretty rough. Instead you could use a reaction wheel and a known mass in orbit to avoid atmosphere and see how fast the spin accelerates. Then, based off the energy used and the mass, you could determine more accurately what an ec is. Still not perfect because electric motors that would be used in reaction wheels aren’t perfectly efficient, but better than panels because they vary a lot and may also be balanced for gameplay like the funds.
The problem in using the SLS and compare it to a Müm capable rocket is that the scale of the universes are very different, and i believe that it would cost at least 10 to 100 times more money to build a SLS than a Müm capable rocket
Iodine is highly unlikely to be present in such high quantities of a terrestrial planet. A more likely scenario is that Eve is a Vitriolic acid world with seas of Sulphuric Acid. These seas dissolve lots of minerals and so the seas are tainted a dark purple colour. Perhaps the atmosphere is also tainted purple thanks to pink quartz (a silicate stable in such an environment) dust, similar to Mars’ red iron oxide atmosphere.
You can escape a black hole if you have enough speed, just like any celestial body, but a black hole is so small and dense that at some point the required velocity is too high for one to achieve, and thus escape becomes impossible. If you are far away enough, you can escape it.
3:52 That's actually very similar sizes to what JNSQ mod offers, a mod that make the entire system and bodies ~2.7x bigger than in the stock game... New sub BTW!
